The effect of heparin on graft thrombosis in pediatric renal allografts

Pediatric Nephrology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 531-535

  Nagra, Arvind ^a   Trompeter, Richard S ^a   Fernando, Oswald N ^a   Koffman, Geoff ^a   Taylor, John D ^a   Lord, Rozanne ^a   Hutchinson, Carol ^a   O'Sullivan, Caoimhe ^b   Rees, Lesley ^a  

^a GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Graft thrombosis; Heparin; Paediatric renal transplantation

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; HEPARIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; POSTOPERATIVE THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION;

ADOLESCENT; ANTICOAGULANTS; AZATHIOPRINE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CYCLOSPORINE; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEPARIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFANT; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PREDNISOLONE; RENAL CIRCULATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 2342446506     PISSN: 0931041X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00467-004-1458-4     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Broyer M, Gagnadoux MF, Sierro A, Fischer AM, Niaudet P (1991) Preventive treatment of vascular thrombosis after kidney transplantation in children with low molecular weight heparin. Transplant Proc 23:1384-1385
2. Singh A, Stablein D, Tejani A (1997) Risk factors for vascular thrombosis in pediatric renal transplantation. Transplantation 63:1263-1267
3. Seikaly M, Ho PL, Emmett L, Tejani A (2001) The 12th annual report of the North American pediatric renal transplant cooperative study: renal transplantation from 1987 through 1998. Pediatr Transplant 5:215-231
4. Schurman SJ, McEnery PT (1997) Factors influencing short-term and long-term pediatric renal transplant survival. J Pediatr 130:455-462
5. Ubhi CS, Lam FT, Mavor AI, Giles GR (1989) Subcutaneous heparin therapy for cyclosporin immunosuppressed renal allograft recipients. Transplantation 48:886-887
6. Venkateswara K, Smith EJ, Alexander JW, Fidler JP, Pemmarajan SR, Pollack VE (1976) Thromboembolic disease in renal allograft recipients: what is its clinical significance? Arch Surg 111:1086-1092
7. Warady BA, Hebert D, Sullivan EK, Alexander SR, Tejani A (1997) Renal transplantation, chronic dialysis and chronic renal insufficiency in children and adolescents. The 1995 annual report of NAPRTCS. Pediatr Nephrol 11:49-64
8. Gruber SA, Chavers B, Payne WD, Fryd DS, Canafax DM, Simmons RL, Najarian JS, Matas A (1989) Allograft renovascular thrombosis - lack of increase with cyclosporine immunosuppression. Transplantation 47:475-478
9. Bakir N, Sluiter WJ, Ploeg RJ, Son WJ van, Tegzess AM (1996) Primary renal graft thrombosis. Nephrol Dial Transplant 11:140-147
10. Alkhunaizi AM, Olyaei AJ, Barry JM, deMattos AM, Conlin MJ, Lemmers MJ, Bennett WM, Norman DJ (1998) Efficacy and safety of low molecular weight heparin in renal transplantation. Transplantation 66:533-534
11. Rosenthal TJ, Ettenger RB, Ehrlich RM, Fine R (1990) Technical factors contributing to successful kidney transplantation in small children. J Urol 144:116-119
12. Kari JA, Romagnoli J, Duffy P, Fernando ON, Rees L, Trompeter RS (1999) Transplantation in children under 5 years of age. Pediatr Nephrol 130:730-736
13. Penny MJ, Nankivell BJ, Disney AP, Byth K, Chapman JR (1994) Renal graft thrombosis: a survey of 134 consecutive cases. Transplantation 58:565-569
14. Robertson AJ, Nargund V, Gray DWR, Morris PJ (2000) Low dose aspirin as prophylaxis against renal-vein thrombosis in renal-transplant recipients. Nephrol Dial Transplant 15:1865-1868
15. Murphy GJ, Taha R, Windmill DC, Metcalfe M, Nicholson ML (2001) Influence of aspirin on early allograft thrombosis and chronic nephropathy following renal transplantation. Br J Surg 88:261-266